Kaspersky Finds Nearly 6 Million Online Threats In Indonesia During Q1 2024

JAKARTA - Online users continue to be targeted by cybercriminals. Throughout 2023, Kaspersky found 97,465 financial phishing, 16.4 million local incidents, 11.7 million RDP attacks, and 97,226 ransomware detections in Indonesia.

Now, the global cybersecurity company has released the latest cyber threat statistics for Indonesia, which shows a decline in local threats in the first quarter of 2024 by 5,863,955 detections. Down 23.37 percent compared to the same period last year.

"Although our statistics show a common decline in online and local threats in Indonesia, the number of detections is still relatively high," said Dony Koesmandarian, Enterprise Group Manager for Indonesia at Kaspersky.

Overall, 21.2 percent of users are attacked by threats spread through the web during the Q1 2024 period. This puts Indonesia ranked 96th in the world in terms of the dangers associated with web browsing.

The use of local infection statistics for a user's computer is a very important indicator. army and virus files are the causes of most of the incident.

"With the level of internet penetration in Indonesia reaching 79.5 percent, this means that more and more valuable data is attracting cybercriminals," added Dony.

To that end, Dony added, Kaspersky urges all individuals and organizations in Indonesia to be aware of the possibility of other cyber efforts that may be more sophisticated or even simpler than this.